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Dear John circa 2009 – This is John from September 2011 writing to you. It’s been an interesting past couple of years to be sure, but you’ve come a long ways and learned a whole lot. Two years ago you were a bit lost in your direction in life, having just left a good paying […]

Alright folks, when this blog post goes live I’ll be on my panel at SMX about Twitter, Facebook, and SEO. If you want to tune in live, my friend will be live-streaming it to this URL: Tune in live And right here, you can chat live as well! You’ll need to authenticate with Ustream, Twitter, […]

Kristy Bolsinger is a Social Business Consultant with Ant’s Eye View in Seattle. A well known and loved face on the conference circuit, Kristy gave an inspired talk about engaging with, measuring, and leveraging your community for both a social boost and SEO productivity. She focused on everything from tools to monitor your community, ways […]

Wil Reynolds from SEER Interactive loves linkbuilding. He loves to talk about linkbuilding. He loves to beat the bad guys by outworking them and being smarter. And he is a really smart guy who has built an incredible team at SEER in Philadelphia. Wil unveiled a phenomenal tool to use to find link prospects using […]

Wednesday was the first day of Mozcon in Seattle, WA. I’ve been to a couple of SEO conferences, two Distilled conferences to be exact and I wrote recaps of London here and Boston here. Mozcon has continued to raise the bar for SEO conferences I think, and here are links to Storify renditions of the […]

I’ve only been in full-time SEO for about a year. This comes as a shock to a lot of people who read this blog, and I am always humbled when people are shocked by it. I have to be honest though, becoming an SEO, which was quite honestly a fortunate accident, has rocked my life. […]

The goal of The Beginner SEO is to provide information to the newcomers to the SEO industry, writing as a newcomer to the industry. My full-time experience started in October 2010, though I was trained as a web developer at university and have operated around the fringes of the SEO community since mid-2007. I plan […]

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Hi I'm John Doherty, the founder of Credo and author of this blog. I am an entrepreneur and growth marketer based in Denver Colorado (though often traveling the world), where I live with my wife and our very large black labrador Butterbean.